Painting a stump grinder

[murphy4trees]

Hope you can help out with some advice on painting an old stump grinder, and other repairs, which is posted on the used eqiuipment forum...
thanks,
D

http://www.arboristsite.com/showthread.php?threadid=17306

 

[John Stewart]

Hey Daniel
Sandblast to get off all the rust and use tremclad to re paint with. If you got the time take it all apart first and sandblast each piece and the repaint each piece and put her back and you are good to go!
Later
John

 

[MasterBlaster]

Deja vue... :alien:

 

[murphy4trees]

Sandblasting is not practical... what is tremclad???

I was thinking epoxy paint... someone said enamel... Probably need to prime it...

 

[John Stewart]

Hey
Why is sandblasting not practical?
Tremclad is a rust inhibating paint we have up here.
Do you guys not have that?
Later
John

 

[Stumper]

Dan'l, Take it to the carwash and pressure wash it well. Scrub off any loose paint with a 3M plastc scrubber (the stuff that takes the place of steel wool). Mask the decals/controls/gauges and get after it with aerosol cans. That machine doesn't look too bad but primer is still recommended. Ace hardware sells a very good quality equipment paint in spray cans They have Deere green, H.E. yellow, Safety green and a few others. You also have the option of a multitude of colors from Krylon and Rustoleum, Ace. etc. Krylon has one that dries to the touch(and for recoating) in 12 minutes. The good stuff from Ace requires a couple hours between coats. The Heavy Equipment yellow that was original is pretty cool but I'm thinking about changing my Rayco to match my truck and chipper.

By the way-congratulations on your "new " machine!

 

[Menchhofer]

We have had decent results with sanding the rust areas lightly and priming them with the rust preventer that turns the rust black and into a paintable/primed surface.

We then simply use a decent tractor enamel paint (cat yellow or such). We have both sprayed and brushed (foam pads) the paint onto the surface and it seems as if the foam pads are the way to go as there is little difference in the finished product. This seems to last for a few good years.
It is a good deal of work to prepare and paint a machine properly so perhaps your best bet would be to call in your favors

 

[Lumberjacked]

I would definitly pressure wash it off, sand the entire machine (otherwise the paint will not stick well) and then use some of that spray on rust inhibiter that nuetralizes the rust spots, take some stripeeze and get the decals off, tape the hoses and other vital areas, shoot a coat of primer on her with a compressed air paint sprayer( you can pick one up for like $40 new), and then either get the correct color yellow or use any urethane based yellow equipment paint (once again useing the spray gun), and buy new decals. I did this to a Fisher plow that was in terrible shape and its looked new for about three years now and showing no signs of rust spots. Good luck!

 

[JJackson]

Something not suggested using a pre painting cleaner, I think the stuff I had is pro kleen or something like it. It is basically a cleaner that remove grease from fingers and regular operational grease because paint does not stick to dirty oily greasy surfaces...if you can not sandblast sand and clean all surfaces to be painted

 

[murphy4trees]

paint prep
OK here's a shot of the grinder in the paint booth..
Ended up using a angle grinder with stone wheel to blow through the rust which was throughout the metal... probably overkill, and I know it will leave scratches.... that's OK... they'll help hold the paint.... New decals from Rayco ran about $36....

I won't do this again... Too much time and trouble..

Anyone know the type of wheel used by the old Raycos?? I need a spare for the trip to Florida... I haven't bothered measuring the lug pattern yet

 

[Nickrosis]

Looks like a lot of work. Are you rattle-canning it or using an electrostatic sprayer...
[butch influence]
whore wut?
[/butch influence]

 

[MasterBlaster]

It's 'whore whut?"

Get it right there, sonny!

 

[Nickrosis]

Whoopsy.

 

[murphy4trees]

Nick,
That's in a paint booth... could be baked if he was in a hurry...